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Title
Papel queimado. referência ao Bispado de Tonquim
Abstract
This archival memorandum, dated to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and held within the ‘Section for the East — File No. 1254 — Tápel’, concerns a jurisdictional dispute over ecclesiastical patronage (*padroado*) in the Kingdom of Tuncal, involving two bishops—one French and one Spanish—whose appointments were contested by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (*Propaganda Fide*), the Cathedral Chapter (*Conovo*), and the collegiate chapter (*Lecto*). The document asserts the sovereign’s territorial right of patronage over ecclesiastical benefices in Tuncal, a right confirmed by Pope Pius VI, and urgently requests definitive canonical intervention by the Holy See. It calls for an authoritative papal decree, vested with full canonical faculties, to resolve the dispute unambiguously and prevent schism, administrative disorder, and pastoral ambiguity in the region’s diminished ecclesiastical structure. The memorandum is filed under the ‘East’ section, specifically within records pertaining to the Dioceses of the East and Cochin, indicating its relevance to colonial-era ecclesiastical administration in South Asia. Researchers will find this document valuable for analysing intersections of royal patronage, papal authority, missionary governance, and inter-episcopal conflict in a contested colonial ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Date
1755
URL
http://43.156.68.124/docs/YXSX8HJB/viewer_YXSX8HJB.html
Archive
Portugal. Arquivo Diplomático e Biblioteca do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
Loc. in Archive
Arquivo da Embaixada de Portugal Junto da Santa Sé até 1930
Short Title
Burnt document, reference to the bishopric of Tonkin
Language
Portuguese
Call Number
33, Maço 7
Extra
Doc.7
Notes

Translation

Page 1

Section
Section for the East — File No. 1254 — Tápel
Memorandum referring to the dispute concerning Fonteín.

Page 2

As in the Kingdom of Tuncal there are two bishops—one of French nationality and the other Spanish—Your Royal Highness holds, by virtue of territorial sovereignty over this Kingdom of Tuncal, an indisputable right of patronage (*padroado*) over the ecclesiastical benefices therein. This right was explicitly affirmed by His Holiness Pope Pius VI as belonging to Your Highness. It is therefore essential that all disputes between the aforementioned bishops—those appointed by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (*Propaganda Fide*), the Cathedral Chapter (*Conovo*), and the collegiate chapter (*Lecto*)—be resolved definitively by the Holy See. To this end, His Holiness must formally intervene, issuing an authentic and authoritative decree, duly empowered with all necessary canonical faculties, and prescribing precise directives to prevent schism, disorder, and ambiguity. Such intervention must be both unequivocal and definitive; without it, neither the diminished ecclesiastical structure in that region nor even the bishops themselves would be able lawfully to exercise their infallible rights and jurisdiction in matters pertaining to this delicate and sensitive pastoral governance.

Page 3

Section
East
Dioceses of the East
Cochin
File —

Transcription

Page 1

Sec.
Sec. Oriente — 1254 — Tápel
que madv. referera ao Dis-
par de Fonthein —

Page 2

Como no Reino
de Tunkin há dois Bispos da
hum de Nação Franceza, e outro
Espanhola, e Vossa Alteza Real no
poder territorial p.ª este Reino de Tunkin
incontestável direito do Padroado do
meação q.º o mesmo S. Padre Pio VI a
pertencer a V. Alteza faz-se preciso
todas as controversias entre os Sob.ºs
Bispos da Propaganda, Conovo e Lecto
al q.º sua Santidade em preguê a s.ª
ridade munindo autênticamente
to de todos os poderes necessários e p.ª
dir todas as ordens precisas p.ª evi-
tarrassas, escisma, e isto de hum
e de cezivo sem o q.º nem podera hav.º
n’aquella atenuada Igreja nem
mesmo uzar dos seos infalíveis dir.ºs
mear Bispos p.ª tão delicado e

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Seccâo
Oriente
Dioceses de Oriente
Caixa - 33
Maço - 7 -

Citation
Papel queimado. referência ao Bispado de Tonquim. (1755). Portugal. Arquivo Diplomático e Biblioteca do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (Arquivo da Embaixada de Portugal Junto da Santa Sé até 1930). http://43.156.68.124/docs/YXSX8HJB/viewer_YXSX8HJB.html
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